Domestic Violence: Theory, Effects & Interventions A literature review on the causes, and societal, psychological, and physical effects of domestic violence.

The female is, as it were, a mutilated...a sort of natural deficiency. It is not appropriate in a female character to be manly or clever. The male is by nature superior and the female inferior." 1. Introduction <Tab/>Domestic violence has been present in our society and an accepted practice of many cultures for hundreds of years. Up until the late 1800's, a man in this country had the right to …

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